Lebensbilder
Lebensbilder is a German picture book of coloured lithographic scenes from travel and adventure, produced by Theodor Dielitz and Theodor Hosemann and published by Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin in 1889 for a general family readership. The three plates show a tiger hunt in the East Indies, a forest fire in North America, and a prisoner under a Tatar tent, each with a German caption beneath. A designer could draw on their warm, saturated hand-coloured palette, dense foliage framing the scene, and the lively figures set in dramatic outdoor and interior narratives.
